Well you all of course remember the song Hey Joe, been covered a zillion times and by Jimi Hendrix of course (most famous version), so I was just riffing and then hit record. Back to the ol roots. Reminds me of many a jam with me friends...

Soundboard Tinkerers' Johns sent me a track and asked me to have a go at it. He had heard some of my tracks and thought it was a good match. I heard the track and thought, wow, now there's a hook if I ever heard one, but knew right away I wanted to rearrange for impact, and Johns gave me that approval, so off I went into Soundboard Tinkerers land!

I added a number of drum bits and syncopated effects as well as a vocal rearrangement. I played synths throughout as well.

I believe Soundboard Tinkerers released the track as "Looking Into It" so I'm releasing it here as a new track based on the same track. It's really a remix and rearrangement.

This is a very clever hook and groove that Johns has going, and believe this should be on radio, in clubs, etc etc.. a crowd pleaser. Hope I helped in that regard. - Z

part ten: Cumulonimbus-Storm is coming with progressive jam Gary gutars/bass/organ&

Zeph Synth solo with drums and effects & Jaime on Piano

End: Clear Skies- Gary Piano

Amazing drum design played by Zeph in all places!

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This is a tune inspired and in appreciation for people and musicians we have come to know on the cloud here but also about the changing of weather conditions in life and through the season of life (in music)

So it is a loose concept piece in a sense. I was looking to do something instrumental and I wanted to work again with Jaime who I think just did an amazing job with her contributions and is in places you may would not have known were Jaime (see parts) All of her work was done on the piano and some was modeled with other effects to add a new layer to her talents here.

Then we passed off to Zeph who started this thing with a drum loop he sent me that got me going and then he added his drum design to the rest of the piece and some instrumentation that I just think fit so well and again (see parts) His mix on this was stellar and I could not be happier with the way everyone vibed this groove. We had much fun together doing it.

This is a tune about those times when the world around us gets small and we need to reach out and around to the ones we trust for strength, guidance and direction. It has some deeper personal meanings as well that I will leave to interpretation.

This tune was a bit more alternative jazzy and I am so amazed at how Jaime can adapt to all musical situations I toss her way. I was wanting some of that low register with Jaimes vocal on this with splashes of her natural range and so I double tracked her vocal. There are actually two Jaimes singing here one a baritone and the other the Jaime we all know and love. I also told her I was wanting some piano for the piece and she just comes up with the coolest melodies and grooves, about how she comes up with lyrics...in minutes...lol amazing she iz

We were going to get Zeph in on this and we were looking at some live drums, and other things but upon placing the mix he felt the drums I had arranged were cool and he also was on a limited time schedule so he graciously did the mix and production for us and I could not be happier with his involvement here.

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They emote things in an around that only you can know

They subtly twisting on with their phantazmic laden show

They remotely view your dance in this convex picture play

They nudge you to the perceivable choice oh that is their way

They sequester you en route to that party in your mind

They don't perplex about your plight by cause theyz not your kind

Magnitude all proportion .... capacities unkind

Elemental contortions... volatility entwined

Free flowing resonance ... physicality expanse

scale,range and radius... territorial domain unto this dance

We undergo the changing winds in this naturalistic expanse

We discern all divergence with a focus generated glance

We apprehend the emotional content sweeping our inner depth

We encompass the calamity with an impassioned circumspection breadth

We hang onto all the virtues of the light and tunnel bearing with at the end